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Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

Chinese culture has become more significant in Canada, partly because 6) _______. Chinatowns have expanded or even evolved into major shopping malls. What’s more, Chinese Canadians participate in politics and get elected, which shows a high level of their integration into Canadian society.

(based on Chinese Becomes No. 3 Language by People's Daily Online)

PROJECT WORK

Project CANADA AND MULTICULTURALISM

Work

LEVEL 1.

TASK 1.

Find more information about ethnic communities in Canada and multiculturalism.

1.How many ethnic communities are there in Canada? How numerous are they?

2.When was the policy of multiculturalism adopted?

3.What effect did this have on the Chinese community?

4.What national identity have the Chinese living in Canada developed over the years?

TASK 2.

Compare your fi ndings with those of all the other students in your group.

LEVEL 2.

Which title do you think is more appropriate “The Chinese Canadians” or “The Canadian Chinese”? Explain your reasoning.

Resources:

http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/index.htm

http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/learning_resources/chinese_timeline/

http://www.statcan.ca/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=89-621-XWE

http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/multi/respect_e.cfm

You can use other sources.

READING 1. THE REALITY OF TODAY

PRE-READING QUESTIONS:

1.What behaviour can you describe as racist?

2.Why are racial prejudices so widespread?

Read the text quickly looking for illustrations which support the opinions from Reading 1 unit 3.

Racism means:

•having to keep relationships secret

•not getting the respect you deserve

•being singled out

•being harassed or attacked

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

There is something in the shadows. Rabia Khan is worried. She has found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. She ought to know better than to be this end of Ravensmoor Road after dark. This stretch of road has a history. Rabia’s father has warned her often enough. Now she is regretting the way she has ignored his advice not to go on her own.

Despite everything Oakfield isn’t a town that is used to living in fear. It is an ordinary sort of place, what you might call a backwater9. But one simple fact haunts this town like many others: hatred can be ordinary and evil can be commonplace. This time it started to go bad the day two airliners changed the skyline of New York forever. Rabia knows how some people’s eyes have flashed at her in the street since that day. She feels instinctively that the rules of her life have changed.

* * *

Suhail Khan glances at the kitchen clock. “She should be back by now,” he says. “You worry too much,” says his wife Diane.

Suhail doesn't say anything, but he isn't reassured. Even after all these years, he and Diane feel different about this town. She is a white woman married to a British Muslim. She doesn't feel automatic hostility when she visits her family up the Ravensmoor Road, but her husband does. Her children do. They've all heard the shouts of Paki. Of course Diane doesn't ignore what they tell her. What mother would? She suffered her own share of hostility in the early days. Even in the eyes of her parents she has committed the cardinal sin of marrying one of those people.

“I think I'm going to take a run up to the library,” Suhail says. Diane doesn't try to stop him.

* * *

“What's the matter, Fatima?” says one of the youths, flicking a peanut at Rabia. “Not talking?” No, she isn't talking.

Not to the likes of him. For a moment Rabia feels defiant but it doesn't last long. She is too scared for that. Some of the other girls at school have been pushed around this way. Shahnaz from Rabia's maths set was walking round Oakfield Park wearing the Muslim headscarf, the hijab. Somebody tore it clean off. That was just after the World Trade Center was hit. Rabia feels uncomfortable. More than uncomfortable, she is scared.

“Hey!”

One of them grabs hold of her around the upper arm. Feeling his fingers digging into her flesh, she shrinks back.

“What's the matter with you?” he asks, feeling her reaction. “Do you think you're too good for us or something?”

He is trying to swing her round, to make her look at him. He wants to see the fear in her eyes. “Come on, love. Don't you want to do us the dance of the seven veils?”

“Maybe she'd rather give us a kiss.” Finally her reply breaks loose. “Let go of me!”

Suddenly the pair of them are racing down the street towards Foulshurst Avenue. Rabia hears a familiar, gruff voice. “There you are, I've been up and down this road twice. I don't know how I missed you. The council should do something about the lighting along here.”

“Dad!”

Suhail Khan hears the relief in his daughter's voice. “Is something wrong?”

Instinctively he looks round in the direction of the two white boys he has just seen running up the hill.

“Don't go after them,” she says.

9 A place where nothing exciting happens.

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

“Why? What's happened?”

“I'll tell you about it on the way home,” she says.

* * *

A hundred metres down the road Suhail Khan is pulling up outside the house. He's been listening to Rabia's story.

“I've a good mind10 to go looking for them,” he says. “Don't, Dad,” says Rabia. “They're not worth it.” “You're right, of course,” says Suhail. “They're not worth it. It just makes me angry that they can go round picking on teenage girls. Master race, eh? Why don't they try it on with a grown man like me?”

He remembers a night twenty years ago. He was a young man, little more than a boy, and he lay frightened and alone on a rainswept pavement while half a dozen men drove their boots into him. He hasn't forgotten his fear and humiliation. The memory makes him determined that his children will never feel that terror. This town is their home. They were born here. Surely that's enough to make them British! They should be able to go where they like without being threatened or abused. “Forget them, Dad.”

“I'll do my best,” says Suhail. “But why should I? We work hard. We keep ourselves to ourselves. Why should my daughter be threatened by such people?”

Rabia shrugs. He knows the answer as well as she does. You can hide your views or take off a badge, but you can't disguise the colour of your skin.

/from Caught in the Crossfire by Alan Gibbson/

Read the text again and do the task below.

Getting the story straight: pick out the statements which you know from the text to be true. Arrange them in the right order to make a story.

1.Rabia Khan is going home from the library after dark.

2.She comes from a Muslim family.

3.Her mother is British but her father is not.

4.They live in the small town of Oakfield.

5.It is in the Northwest of England.

6.The story is set in Great Britain following Sept. 11, 2001.

7.Most Muslim families live in the Ravensmoor Road.

8.Two white youths are stalking (following her in a threatening way) Rabia on her way home.

9.Rabia’s father is a taxi driver.

10.Diane, Rabia’s mother, married a Pakistani against her family’s wishes.

11.The boys are insulting her.

12.Rabia is scared because she is afraid of the dark.

13.Rabia is scared because she is a Muslim girl and the white boys are acting as racists.

14.Oakfield has always been hostile towards non-British people.

15.Suhail comes to his daughter’s rescue.

16.Suhail tries to catch the boys and teach them a lesson because a long time ago he was abused, too.

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

VOCABULARY LIST

Ex. 1. Study the Vocabulary List and translate all the examples.

1.warn, v. предупреждать, предостерегать

Mom warned me that I should be home by 10. to warn smb of / about

Have you warned the new employees of possible difficulties? to warn smb against

His friends warned him against walking in that neighbourhood at night; it might be dangerous.

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

share, v. 1) делиться, использовать совместно

I share my car with my sister's family.

2) разделять (взгляды, мнение)

to share smb’s point of view / opinion

The president shared our views on the need for educational reform.

4.hostility, n. 1) враждебность

great / open / growing hostility

hostility to / toward / between smb / smth

The hostility between Scotland and England began at the end of the 13th century. to feel / to show / to provoke hostility чувствовать / проявлять / вызывать (провоцировать) враждебность

More and more Europeans feel growing hostility to / toward immigrants.

2) (pl.) военные действия hostilities between / against hostilities begin / break out

Hostilities between neighboring countries can break out even after an unimportant incident.

to end / to resume hostilities

How did the negotiators succeed in ending the hostilities?

Каким образом участникам переговоров удалось договориться о прекращении военных действий?

hostile, adj. враждебный, недружелюбный

to be / to feel / to become hostile to / toward smb / smth

Many party leaders were openly hostile to / toward the new plan.

5.loose, adj. 1) свободный, незакреплённый

loose tooth / button / shoelaces шатающийся зуб / болтающаяся пуговица / слабо завязанные шнурки

to come loose открепиться, отделиться, отвязаться

The door handle has come slightly loose. Дверная ручка слегка разболталась.

to break loose from smb / smth отрываться, высвобождаться, вырываться на свободу

A metal fragment broke loose from the right wing of the plane.

In the 16th century, Protestants in Germany broke loose from the Roman Catholic Church.

2)просторный, неприлегающий (об одежде) I like my clothing to be loose and comfortable.

3)приблизительный, неточный, вольный loose translation / interpretation / calculations

loosen, v. ослаблять(-ся), смягчать

He loosened his necktie and cleared his throat. Он ослабил галстук и откашлялся.

The company has simplified and loosened its requirements.

6.miss, v. 1) промахнуться

to miss the target не попасть в цель

2) упустить, пропустить

to miss the bus / plane / train (by an hour) опоздать на автобус / самолет / поезд (на час)

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

6.miss, v. to miss an idea / the point / smb’s words не понять идеи / сути / чьих-то слов

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

VOCABULARY PRACTICE

Ex. 2. Fill in the gaps with the correct word. The fi rst letter is given to help you.

1.A Picasso painting which went m_______ from the Pompidou Centre in Paris has been recovered by the police.

2.In 1455 h_______ broke out between the House of York and the House of Lancaster.

3.I doubt Ed will ever change his m_______ about the power of the Internet.

4.The Arctic is s_______ by eight countries.

5.Gregory was arrested for making t_______s against his neighbours.

6.Analysts believe the government has m_______ the opportunity to reform the economy of the country.

7.A band of monkeys broke l______ from the local zoo and invaded a warehouse full of bananas.

8.During the Renaissance and the Reformation, the Church was often h_______ to new scientific ideas, which it saw as t_______.

9.Most of his companions had already had breakfast, and he s_______ the dining-room with only a few others.

10.Child psychologists w_______ that video-game addiction can be a serious problem.

11.At the age of 7, Vanessa-Mae made up her m________ to become a violinist.

12.The new arrangements l_______ rather than strengthened the links between local authorities and businesses.

13.To my horror, our neighbour t________ my husband with a baseball bat.

14.The president gave а w_______ that any h_______ forces found on South Africa's borders would be dealt with firmly.

15.He lived in constant f_______ that that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past.

16.A cyclist may lose control and fall if the handlebars (руль велосипеда) come l_______ and turn unexpectedly.

Ex. 3. Bring out the difference in the meanings of the words in bold type. Translate the phrases using a dictionary when necessary.

1.I've always been interested in writing, and knew at the back of my mind that it's the only job I've really wanted to spend my life doing.

2.To my mind, BMWs are better than Toyotas.

3.Bear in mind, you should return the book on Tuesday.

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

4.At first, I was in two minds whether to stay in Florida or not, but after the hurricane I packed up and left for New York.

5.It never crossed my mind that my behavior could be interpreted in such a way.

6.Ted, you are reading my mind! I was just going to suggest it.

7.“Will you help me to move the furniture in my living-room?” — “I’m afraid I can’t. I’m busy with my dissertation.” — “Never mind! I’ll get Frank to help me.”

8.I’ve a good mind to tell my boss that I’m going to look for another job.

9.There’s always a thought on my mind that one day I will have to leave. I can’t get rid of it.

Ex. 4. Use the appropriate MIND phrase.

1.“Why don’t we take a walk down to the river?”“In the rain?’”“__________, I’m pretty sure it will stop soon”. “OK, let’s get going then”.

2.Always __________ that your own wish to succeed is more important than any one thing (Abraham Lincoln).

3.“Do you really share our views? Are you ________ as the rest of us here about the country’s future?“

4.“Did it ever __________ that you will get married to a doctor?”“Never. I didn’t even like them!”

5.“Can you believe it? He said I looked vulgar in this dress!”“Well, __________ what he says. That colour looks wonderful on you. You do look great”.

6.I cannot __________, so if you have a question you need to tell me. Don’t wait until it’s too late!

7.I’m __________ whether to go to the cinema or not; they say the movie’s boring.

8.Please __________ that this is primarily a NEWS site, not a discussion forum.

9.Ronnie — __________ — is the best that's ever played the game. What do you think?

10.Phoebe always knew __________ that she wanted to be a writer, even before she knew how to read or write.

11.The national team coach is __________ about who is to replace the injured forward.

12.__________, to kill in war is not better than to commit ordinary murder (Albert Einstein).

13.If any negative thoughts __________ — replace them immediately with something pleasant and optimistic.

14.Jill never feared __________, and to say what she thought was right.

15.“I ___________ to call your parents and tell them about your behaviour!” said the teacher angrily.

Ex. 5. Translate into Russian paying special attention to the Active Vocabulary.

1.In many European countries, ethnic minorities have begun to fear for their lives as extremist sentiment (настроения) is becoming more widespread.

2.Robbie Williams threatened to break the legs of a photographer who tried to make a picture of him at the airport.

3.A war can provoke hostility toward certain immigrant groups or other minorities.

4.Though she listened to the writer attentively, she missed the point of his new book.

5.For the first couple of university years I shared a flat with a friend, then my grandmother died and I moved to her apartment.

6.One person was slightly injured in the Saturday afternoon accident, when a chair on the ski lift came loose, moved backwards and struck the chair behind it.

7.It is still unclear what sort of career he has in mind for his son.

8.The UN Security Council called on all parties to immediately end the hostilities.

9.In 2004 Namibia and South Africa managed to loosen restrictions on hunting rare black rhinoceros (носороги).

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

10.Space radiation between Earth and Mars poses a serious threat to astronauts.

11.A prisoner broke loose from Oxford prison last night. The police warned against approaching Sean Hyland, 26, who was serving four years for robbery.

12.The Foreign Office has given a warning to tourists about terrorist activity in Egypt.

13.Some people don’t buy poultry (мясо птицы) for fear of bird flu.

Ex. 6. Match a verb in A with a noun in B. Some words can form several collocations. Illustrate their use with sentences of your own.

Ex. 7. Odd one out. Find in each set one word that does not go with the main one.

Ex. 8. Short story contest.

Make up a short story (10–12 sentences) with the Active Vocabulary words and present it in class. Don’t read when making your presentation. Choose the best story using the following criteria:

1.interest of the plot;

2.use of the Active Vocabulary (the number of words and their acceptability);

3.grammatically correct sentences.

Ex. 9. Work in pairs. Answer the following questions using the Active Vocabulary. Say why you do or you don’t.

1.Do you mind people asking you personal questions?

2.Do you think health warnings on cigarette packages effectively promote a healthy way of life?

3.Do you often change your mind?

Английский язык для международников и регионоведов. Часть I

4.Do you usually watch a film if you missed its beginning?

5.Which clothing do you find more comfortable: loose or tight?

6.Is there anyone with whom you share your thoughts, ideas, and feelings?

7.What is your greatest fear?

8.Can you think of any recent governmental project that was met with public hostility?

9.Do you miss school days?

10.Do you always speak your mind? Why (not)?

11.Do you know any people who do not do any extreme sports for fear of injury?

12.Do you think your mind can really cure illnesses?

Ex. 10. Think of contexts in which you can use the following sentences. Consult a dictionary if necessary. Add a sentence or two to turn them into a dialogue.

e.g.: — I’m meeting my girlfriend’s parents tonight.

—It isn’t going to be easy. You’ll have to mind your p’s and q’s.

1.Great minds think alike!

2.I’m warning you!

3.Mind you p’s and q’s!

4.Sorry, but I’m not a mind reader.

5.Are you threatening me?

6.It doesn’t matter. Never mind.

Ex. 11. Translate the sentences into English using the Vocabulary List.

1.Генерал был одним из самых важных политиков в Вашингтоне, его боялись и уважали сенаторы и конгрессмены.

2.Даже через 30 лет после того, как прекратились военные действия между этими двумя странами, отношения между ними остаются натянутыми.

3.Даниель опоздал на самолет на несколько минут.

4.Землетрясение может служить предупреждением о том, что приближается цунами (tsunami).

5.Карен придерживается того же мнения, что и Филипп в отношении будущего страны.

6.Преступник угрожал им кухонным ножом.

7.Львиная доля успеха зависит от вас самих, от вашего терпения и трудолюбия.

8.Если государство проявляет враждебность к иммигрантам, оно не может ожидать от них лояльности.

9.Полиция делает всё возможное, чтобы найти пропавших детей как можно скорее.

10.Мальчики сидели на льдине (ice floe) и не шевелились, боясь упасть в воду.

11.Никто не виноват, что ты заболел! Я тебя предупреждал, чтобы ты не ел столько мороженого.

12.Она любила отца и очень скучала, когда он уезжал.

13.Преодолеть страх перед вторым прыжком с парашютом труднее, чем перед первым.

14.С ним не о чем говорить, у него на уме одни деньги!

15.Я был удивлен, когда узнал, сколько людей разделяют мои взгляды на роль Интернета в современном обществе.

16.Вскоре после окончания Второй мировой войны на Ближнем Востоке вспыхнули

военные действия.

17.Вам когда-нибудь приходило в голову, что вы можете использовать своё превосходное знание психологии для того, чтобы помогать другим людям?

Chapter 2. Unit 4. Born Equal?